As lead shareholder in each of its core investments, Blue Harbour partners on an exclusively collaborative basis with company management teams to design and implement strategies to unlock significant shareholder value over a two-to-three-year horizon. These strategies are often similar to the str...

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John W. Gibson

Chairman of the Board, ONEOK

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John Gibson is non-executive chairman of the board of ONEOK, ONEOK Partners and ONE Gas. He most recently was chairman and chief executive officer of both ONEOK and ONEOK Partners after serving as chairman, president and chief executive officer of ONEOK and ONEOK Partners. Gibson joined ONEOK in 2000 as president of energy, responsible for the company’s natural gas gathering and processing, and transportation and storage businesses. In 2006, he was named president and chief operating officer of ONEOK Partners, the master limited partnership that contains the midstream natural gas and natural gas liquids businesses. He was elected chief executive officer of ONEOK and president and chief executive officer of ONEOK Partners in January 2007, becoming chairman of ONEOK Partners later that year. In January 2010, he became president of ONEOK; and in May 2011, he became chairman. Gibson began his career in the energy industry in 1974 as a refinery engineer with Exxon Company, USA. He spent 18 years with Phillips Petroleum Company in a variety of domestic and international positions in the natural gas, natural gas liquids and exploration and production businesses. When Gibson left Phillips in 1995, he was vice president of marketing of GPM Gas Corporation, a wholly owned natural gas gathering, processing and marketing subsidiary. Prior to joining ONEOK, Gibson was executive vice president of Koch Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of Koch Industries, responsible for its interstate natural gas pipelines and gathering and processing businesses. Gibson is member of the Board of Directors of Matrix Service Company and BOK Financial Corporation, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Missouri University of Science and Technology. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Gibson earned an engineering degree in 1974 from the University of Missouri at Rolla, now called Missouri University of Science and Technology. He also is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program.

As lead shareholder in each of its core investments, Blue Harbour partners on an exclusively collaborative basis with company management teams to design and implement strategies to unlock significant shareholder value over a two-to-three-year horizon. These strategies are often similar to the str...